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<td class="v">18:1</td>
<td>After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;</td>
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<td class="v">18:2</td>
<td>And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.</td>
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<td class="v">18:3</td>
<td>And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.</td>
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<td class="v">18:4</td>
<td>And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.</td>
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<td class="v">18:5</td>
<td>And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.</td>
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<td class="v">18:6</td>
<td>And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.</td>
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<td class="v">18:7</td>
<td>And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.</td>
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<td class="v">18:8</td>
<td>And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.</td>
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<td class="v">18:9</td>
<td>Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:</td>
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<td class="v">18:10</td>
<td>For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.</td>
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<td class="v">18:11</td>
<td>And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.</td>
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<td class="v">18:12</td>
<td>And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,</td>
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<td class="v">18:13</td>
<td>Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.</td>
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<td class="v">18:14</td>
<td>And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:</td>
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<td class="v">18:15</td>
<td>But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.</td>
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<td class="v">18:16</td>
<td>And he drave them from the judgment seat.</td>
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<td class="v">18:17</td>
<td>Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.</td>
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<td class="v">18:18</td>
<td>And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.</td>
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<td class="v">18:19</td>
<td>And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.</td>
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<td class="v">18:20</td>
<td>When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;</td>
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<td class="v">18:21</td>
<td>But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.</td>
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<td class="v">18:22</td>
<td>And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.</td>
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<td class="v">18:23</td>
<td>And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.</td>
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<td class="v">18:24</td>
<td>And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.</td>
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<td class="v">18:25</td>
<td>This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.</td>
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<td class="v">18:26</td>
<td>And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.</td>
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<td class="v">18:27</td>
<td>And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:</td>
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<td class="v">18:28</td>
<td>For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.</td>
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